Reading Recap: Flag Day Edition

June's halfway done??!!

Happy Flag Day, to all those who don’t suck celebrate.

Hey cats, here’s what I got up to consooming this week:

PRINT

I am probably going to shelve SAINTS & STRANGERS for now, since I finished writing ANSWERABLE COURAGE and sent it off to the publisher. This is a huge deal for me, I’ve worked on this idea on-and-off since 2019. In January I saw an opening in a publisher’s schedule and pitched it to them, they were interested, I wrote a draft over the last four months, and here we are. If they decide not to publish it, I should be able to get it out this year myself, and this monkey will be well off my back.

AUDIOBOOKS

THIEFTAKER by Jackson. Good historical fantasy set in the run-up to the American Revolution. Familiar plot, well-described world, content was clean. Review above.

I’ve got at least two more audiobooks I’ll finish this coming week. I’m excited.

COMICS

I finished ROGUE: THE SAVAGE LAND, a miniseries that started in January. Mixed feelings, the art was better than the story, but I followed it well enough despite not knowing a lot of the context.

GEIGER #15, TRANSFORMERS #21, and ABSOLUTE BATMAN #9 also dropped this week. I liked them all and I especially liked the Absolute variant for Bane. The story is moving forward again.

MOVIES

Since I took the weekend off for a family anniversary, I got some time to watch stuff with my kids, including George of the Jungle, which I haven’t seen since it came out in 1997. It’s perfectly charming and it would be utterly sad for a grown man to watch it without children around him, haha. Very cheesy flick, but it’s the kind that got families into theaters together thirty years ago. Plus, Brendan Fraser was freaking shredded in the 90s, holy crap.

My son is watching the MCU movies again on his own, and he asked if I’d watch Captain America: Brave New World with him. I didn’t bother with it in theaters but figured I’d catch it on streaming and so far we’re about a third of the way through. It’s not bad, it has some strengths, it’s better than a lot of recent Marvel stuff so far. We’ll see how it lands.

MUSIC

“Thunder” by Boys Like Girls has always been unapologetic summer fuel, and the radio mix really cranks up the voltage.

“The Kids From Yesterday” is now a throwback by My Chemical Romance, and it’s had primo significance for me for several years. Always makes me think of growing up with my siblings in Henderson. Powerfully kino song.

And then there’s this banger, from Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan, reminding me that my teens were well over two decades ago, hahaha.

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